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itorft&I Page f : S: iJoHPiaall PORTLAND, OREGON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29. 1904 M THE OREGON DAI UY. JOU AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER C S, JACKSON ' Published every ruins (except Sunday) at Th Journal Building, fifth and Yamhill streets," Portland, Oregon. OFFICIAL, PAPER OF THE CITY OF PORTLAND 1 RUSSIAN INITIATIVE. .T TT THEN' it is understood that not a line can be printed In any Russian paper which has not ' V been approved by the official censor, the ar-1 tides appearing with such frequency in the Novoe Vremya are calculated to attract a good deal more attention than otherwise they might deserve. They do not under the clrcum- stances mean an expression of t.he individual opinion of . the editor but the attitude of the Russian government to 'vard the particular question under discussion. . j - 'The Irritation which -they display seems altogether out of proportion to the significance of the facts which they criticise. There is a purpose to fault find, to go out of the way to discover something upon which to hang a crjtl clsm and to even use Unsubstantiated, If not actually dls proven statements of fact, to bolster up their case, and to give It a-color of Justice which otherwise it would Jack. While there is every evidence that the preponderance of American sentiment Is with, the Japanese, precisely aa it was with the Boers and for much the same reason, that they are fighting for self preservation, yet there is no dtf ference of opinion that this government's part in the con test Is one of strict neutrality.. The fortunes of war, must decide the outcome whether for or against Russia.. That is not our funeral, It Is theirs. Our duty in the premises Is perfectly clear and We should lean neither to one side nor the other In the controversy. Above : all. thing w must not permit ourselves to be used to pull the chest nuts out of the fire, for some other nation, whethelTthai nation be England or any other. , " .' . i . ' At the same time when It is all over the American peo ple will not be slow to forget the feeling. of .irritation which the Russian government has gone so far out of its way to express against the American government and peo ple in this,' controversy. . !' . A NEW DEMOCRATIC A NEW NOTE is being struck A tlonal politics. - Essentially it "" . ' amenta! difference between the party the wing supporting Cleveland tained Us record 'of party fealty by both his campaign's. ' The actuating motive in the case of (he latter Is that It there i to be any tlonal platform the work must be done not by the enemies of the platform. , r r Mr. Cleveland In his recent letter stamp of man who, in his Judgment should lead the Demo cratic forces in , the next campaign, Anybody who was capable of putting two and two together would have no difficulty in reaching the conclusion1 land's Judgment the man needed was the man "'who had had Mr." Cleveland's record and experience In. national affairs. Nobody could exactly tally with the description but Mr. Cleveland himself. It Is a noticeable fact that . every, criticism which has been passed upon Roosevelt's lack of conservatism has been construed Democratic ex-presldent rather than any lint. Since the death of Senator Hanna Roosevelt by the Republicans has become a foregone con elusion. If those forces in the Republican party which op pose the president intend to make sitlon, the only course left them is to crat who most nearly squares with Whether or not Cleveland Is this man. sources friendly to these interests the FZXtOT BUTTS OOJCPAJfT. Peopls of Crook County Said to Bsjole : at Its xtiaottoa.vvT-'-;.::--.., " Ths Deschutes Keho evidently is not animated with a friendly feeling for the late Pilot Butte Development company, 'and Its language indicates a spirit of hostility such as often arises from ' prejudice and psrtlsllty. Rival town- ""Vlte Interests may bars something to do with this, but ths Echo's Style of. stat ing its position, while not Indorsed by ;The Journal. Is Interesting. It ssys: f ' "The Pilot Butte Development com pany his given up Its ambition to make the Crook county disert blossom as the rose. The company has long had that tired feeling, and its retirement from Its task Is not a great shock to snyone. The Deschutes Irrigation & Power com pany, a new corporation, has bought the irrigation grant of the Pilot Butte '.Development company, - consisting of some 84,000 acres, ths water rights owned by the Oregon Irrigation com pany, of which C. C Hutchinson wss the leading spirit, and has selected suf ficient other dfcsert land to make a land tract of 210.000 acres. The company is capitalised at $2,600,000, and they made a showing to the state land board that their financial condition was above quostioa Backers of the company say that they will Irrigate one-tenth of the whole tract within four months. This is the best news that has been an nounced to our people for some time. The Pilot Butte Development company rrrelved $70,000 for Its Interest in Its Onrey at grant. The company probably old out because it needed the money. It has never been in shape to comply with Us contrsct and ever since the con tract has been signed the grant hss l-en for sile. The people of this county regarded the venture as a scheme to work the government and everything that could be done here to prevent speculation in these lands was dons, and there is little doubt that the activi ties ot the company's enemies have done much to keep the company from making h profitable deal at public expense. Counting in expenses of the company, there Is very little velvet In the $70,000 re'-eived. The tract was also 'taken to help the company sell its townslte and v1hls.it did not do. It mill owns the towns it n and will be ready one la to ' let that also go to the hlgheat blarfer. A. M.. Drake, lhe president of the Pilgt Butte Develovmunt company, has won lhe .enmity of every permn wortrt con sidering in the D 'Hchiites country. He Ion 11 mi.' snd time again raixed the pas sions of his neighbors to a pitch that threatened personal violence. To say that he is the -eat hated man In Crook county Is' putting the matter In Its mildest form. The people of Prlnevllla uiso were greatly rejoiced that Drake's i-onnection with the county is drawing fo a defeated close. Conversions all -about town were roasts on the Pilot Htitte Development company's president. The plat of the Bend townslte is not on record. As we have said before, the Htle to the most important part of it is i-ubject to the claims of several Infant heirs and is. to that extent, undesirable. That the townslte will prove any more .iirontshle then lhe Carey grant seems exceedingly doubtful. since the sale of t lie grant will deprive the company of all power In the vicinity and Jt will be st the merey of other.UVger interests. The few friends which Drake has will be frrred to take cover or go out of kuln.s and -th big sham irrigation PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. celves flattering if elusion can, therefore, be perfectly satisfactory not only to t"fieDemocratic forcSf which opposed Bryan, but to the Republican, forces which oppose Roosevelt. It is also certain that any unbalanced act at the hands of the president, any step which is cal culated to draw the country Into the war controversy, Undoubtedly helps Cleveland and measurably amalgamates, the Interests back of him. But the new Democratic movement which has just de veloped In Ohio and of which Mr. Hearst is. the beneficiary lifts the fight on to new and better grounds. While It Is calculated to hold all the Bryan strength It eliminates some of the Bryan weakness by putting forward the propo sition that whatever platform tinkering there Is to do must be done by the friends and not enemies of the na tional Democratic party. In this way the party is once again beginning to reach safe grounds and the outlook for It is better than it has been for four years or-more. So far, of course, the beneficiary of the movement Iff W, R. Hearst whose presidential boom has been the most ' sur prising political development for many years. It has in deed now reached a, development aW dignity that It can no longer be Ignored by friend or foe and It Is developing evidences of strength In so many sections of the country that those who sneered at it a few months slnne are now becoming genuinely alarmed over Its growth and are experiencing some fears that the fight against the pluto cratic elements of the Republican party, which is not with out, many sympathizers In-the party Itself, may suddenly crystallize Into an overwhelming force and, sweep that party out of power BALTIMORE THE WAY in which Baltimore has taken hold has ex cited the surprise and admiration of the American people. The first great example of courage and determination in the face of seemingly irreparable calam ity was that displayed by Chicago in 1871 which fought its way back to the front with the most marvelous exhibition of recuperative powers that he country had. ever seen. NOTE. in Democratic na- embraces the fund two wings of the Chicago's push and of the west were and that which main supporting Bryan in the country rather than to individual Americans from all sections. Such, things they could do In the west, but in doctoring of the na the effete east It took them so long to get In motion that really spectacular rejuvenation, such as that displayed In by the friends and Chicago, was utterly But Baltimore is a made very 'plain the and quite the last for an object lesson And yet that Is precisely what Baltimore has done. No that In Mr. Cleve" cltyTh the country, showins. Confronted, with enormous fire losses and with Its business section wiped out, it relied entirely upon its own resources 'to pull Itself together. Already they are beginning to get order out of chaos and the people are at work night and day into helping the place of those which Republican asplr The newspapers, we the nomination of of such work and. as to print their effective their oppo support some Demo ton, where they wer the requirements. It is certain that In Cleveland boom re company- will entail considerable hard ship on the people who foolishly shouted for it." BTJSSXA'S VOTEBTT. Secret financial Keport Exhibits Bar rsnness of Ber Treasury.' The New York American correspond ent has secured a copy of. the "Secret Financial Report" lately addressed to the cxar. It fully explains why Rus sia, or, more correctly, the cxar, was op posed to war. A notion of the emptiness of the pub lic treasury may be gathered from the following facts snd figures: - The various Russian provinces owe ths state for taxes at the following pro portions: T.axes remaining unpaid, 94 per cent, 104 per cent. 11( per cent, lit per cent, 120 per cent, 121 per cent Such are the reports from the districts where Industry Is established. But the real' poverty-stricken condi tion of the people Is shown in the re ports .from the' agricultural provinces. In Samara the peasants owe 403 per cent of all taxes due the state, In Kasan they owe E62 per cent. In Orenburg 538 per cent, and In Usa (13 per cent. The Imperial bank must be in a bsd way, for ths report to the cxar says that lc has been sdvancing money on Industrial securities for a number of years without sufficient collateral. The bank exceeded its authority, but Its dan gerous practices were condoned and en couraged, by the government, which was eager to make some kind of showing of Industrial progress. "Progress, says the report, "cannot be had ss long as the peasants are too poor to buy Industrial products. When whole provinces are starving, the inhab itants cannot be expected to buy clothes,' agricultural implements or articles of luxury. The Imperial bank has loaned out nearly 10,00d, 000, 000 rubles on doubtful industrial' securities, the loans being made in part without authority, save the advice and condonation of the government It was done to help Rus sian industry, particularly mining." The csar is further advised "that the Russian mineral Industry, iron, steel, etc., is largely the unsound product of promoters." These are the exact words of the secret report. Your correspond ent copied them verbatim, and had a transcript made by thrtse different Rus sians, fesrlng that he might be mis taken. The report continues: "The majority of the Russian metal industries are badly organized and badly administered."' The following Is also an exact irun scrlpt from the secret report: "More than 200,000.000 rubles have been loaned to metal industries in viola tion of the statutes of the Imperial bunk and, worse .still, some of the bank directors have Identified themselves with these Industries by acquiring or accept ing stock and taking part in the man agement. . These faithless officials should be at once removed from the positions they hold in the government, for they are placing not' only the prestige but the very existence of the Imperial bank In Jeopardy by unlswful practice." Bis Team. ' v From . Life. Poor ' Feeble about to be operated on for appendicitis) Doctor, before you begin I wish you would send snd have our pastor, the Rev. Mr. Hsrps, come over.. . ! ' ' - Dr. gutter Certainly, if you wish-Jt, but ! i "I'd- like to be oponed with priyer," r JNO. P. CARROLL hot always direct attention. The con scarcely be eecaped that he would in next summer's campaign. RISING TROM THE ASHES. hustle became proverbial terms and we Inclined to ascribe It to the section of impossible. southern city, staid and conservative, place to which the hustling west looked In marvelous enterprise and daring. "east or west, could Tiave made sTbettef rearing new structures to take the were swallowed in the conflagration, are glad to perceive, are In the van have overcome,,Almost Insurmountable difficulties in securing new quarters and equipments so issues In Baltimore instead of Washing forced to go when the calamity first struck them. So. long as such spirit is extant in this country, not In one section but in all parts of It, no one needs to fear for its future or be surprised at its material progress. PKOTEOTXOIf TOB TBOOS. Amerleaa Statesmanship SuoosssfuUy Xsets a Orsat Hmsrgtnoy. P. M. Thorn in Buffalo Times. Another tally must be scored for the sacred palladium of bur prosperity, pro tection. Once more it has met the enemy and they are .It's. Not long ago an In voice of dressed frogs' legs attempted to smuggle Itself into our domain from Canada. Fortunately the legs were In tercepted by our sleepless sleuths of the castoms service, Just as they were about to Jump across the boundary. For a time It seemed as If their interception was futile, for frogs' legs were not to be found on the list of dutiable commodities. The assembled statesmen of the nation, which had spread the aegis of protection over everything, visible or Invisible, from teasles to tonka beans snd from horn tips to hen-fruit, had apparently over looked that terrible menac to American industries. Incarnate In frogs' legs. To be sure we hsve no frog farms. The humble bstrachfan has not yet Sttalned to the ranks of the amphibian "400," so as to be herded and bred for the epicure, like the srlstocratlc terrapin. He belongs, with college boys, to the clsss of ferae naturae wild animals and like his con gener of the college, he la chiefly remark able for his addiction to noise and aquatics.. His voice is ths raw material for church-choir bass singing, but it has not yet occurred to American statesman ship to Impose a tariff-duty on voices. Nevertheless, there is a potential of mis chief in frogs, and our jealous officials knew It. In the deep end mysterious watches of the night, the sepulchral resonance of a pondful of Connecticut frogs once put to flight a panic-stricken squadron of invaders; and everybody knows that an invading army of frogs did for free-trade Egypt. Bo, notwith standing the inadvertent neglect of Mr. Dlngley to specifically catalogue frogs, as tributary to our revenues, Uncle Sam's appraisers determined to take no chances. They felt that' there was a principle at stake. Although no frog Industry yst ex ists in our midst, a tariff duty might call such an industry Into existence, and, under Its fostering care, our worthless swamps be converted Into bonansas and the wayside ditches become the abodes of booming melodies. Bo they decided that frogs' legs are ""dressed poultry," and, therefore, dutiable at S cents a pound. The process of ratiocination by which that conclusion was reached has not yet been revealed, but It was prob ubly reached by main strength, It cer tainly was an able-bodied decision. When It comes to classification, Old Linnaeus wasn't In It with our astute customs of ficials. The decision that frogs' legs are dreaaed poultry carries with It the logi cal analogy that frogs are poultry. Live frogs are, therefore, dutiable at S cents a pound an allowance of 2 cents a pound being made, doubtless, on account of the frogs' feathers. Henceforth there Is to be no reciprocity In frogs. Thus even in the traffic in this humble and harm less amphibian, this administration "stands pat." and snubs the late Presi dent McKlnley and his penultimate fad. If the Canadian frog would hereafter nvold the risk of arrest as a smuggler, for Jumping scross our frontier, let Jilm try a diet of shot, like the fsmous Jump ing Frog of Calaveras. Tarifflcally speaking, the Canadian frog Is a bird; but the American bull-frog is a Repub lican nightingale, and we are bound to pro.tect him sgalnst the poultry product of foreign pauper Isbor. .Most people who hsve a fad oa the Drain nave nothing in lt,ip Oregon Sidelights Sheridan is to hav waterworks the water to be brought'from a spring. 470 feet above the town. Springfield, Lane county. Is "feeling quite proud: Its first brick building, cost- ing about 18,000, is soon to appear. G. K. Wentworth of Chicago has been visiting his timber lands, amounting to lE,OQaacrea.AloiigthftjCaHpocaalveiuJ It is supposed he obtained them legally. Sherar Bridge correspondence of the McMlnnvIlle Telephone-Register: Raj Taylor seems to have some attraction about Mr. Johnson's. Nothing like it, Ray. - , . . ' - With 14 women and children In it, besides man, not worth mentioning, the Sprlngfleld-Eugene stage tipped . over the other day, but nobody was seriously hurt A Umatilla sauaw purchased a box in which coffins had been shipped, big enough for three men, ln'whlch to bury her deceased husband. She wanted much box for little money; besides, the' dead man had many blankets that must be buried "with him to keep him comfort able on the long trip 10 the happy hunt ing grounds. Charles Cunningham, the "sheep king" of Umatilla county, finished shearing over 3,000 bucks several, days ago, and will soon shear other thousands o.f sheep. It is said that such early shear ing Is agreeable to the sheep, and that after a few days they don't mind tho cold weather. Perhaps they like six months fleeces on In the dog days, too. They can'talk English nor vote. , O. E. Branson; county surveyor of Yamhill county, being savagely attacked by a cow, seised her by the horns and threw her broadside, proving that pres ence of mind and plenty of muscle are valuable assets In such an emergency, and also that even that ordinarily do cile animal, the cow, may have her mo ments of revengeful wrath, especially when being driven to a butcher shop. The Chewaucsn Post, published st Paisley, Lake county, humbly remarks: "If you see anything In this week's papa? you don't like bring it back and we'll cut the item out. We have cold feet on editorial duty, made so by' long absence from the quill. If you will be patient, however, you will reap a suit able reward. It is not Mr. Holden's in tention to Impose upon the readers of the Post for any great length of time. There are fslr cost prospects along Dry Hollow and Rowe creek. In Gilliam county, and efforts are being made to se cure options on farms and claims sup posed tot overlie coal beds, but human nature displays Itself In the exaction by owners of i.igh prices for such op tions, concerning which the Fossil Jour nal remarks; "There- Is such a thing as a man overreaching himself by being too greedy. It rests almost entirely with the settlers now, whether or not the coal mines south of Fossil shall be opened." A former Mlssourlan named John Van Horn, now a resident of Gilliam sounty, has been on a visit to his, old home, where, according to a story In the Fos? all Journal,'' ha was ;not properly hown." He brought home with him a pair of 'possums, with the intention of raising a sufficient number of 'possums to supply all the Missourians in this part of the country, from whom he booked some 17 or 1$ advance orders, but, alss! Last week, to his intense chagrin, he made the accidental dis covery thst both of his 'possums are fe males, with no present hope of posterity, A good msny Pendleton people have been much bothered lately about their time pieces, which, when compared with the town clock, as was their custom for many years, seemed to be running awsy, or unaccountably increasing their gait, In consequence of which trains have been missed, meals have been late, do mestic rows have occurred, and pro fanity has been Indulged In to an un usual extent. But on investigation It was discovered that the town clock was st fault, by running slow, decreasing Its speed slightly day by day, and thereby notifying the authorities thst it wss tired for lack of a cleaning up. It was put up over the courthouse in 1888, and has kept time faithfully ever since, and a cleaning was all it needed. An unusual though a very "quiet' wedding wss that which occurred the other day in Baker City, when a young man. In his "everyday" clothes, asked an acquaintance to step into a music store . with him, where, on being per ceived by a young woman salesman, who was waiting en a customershe excused herself for a minute, and stepped over to the young man's side. A Justice of tha peace "happened" to be in the store, and In a few seconds a marriage cer emony hsd been performed, and the bridegroom went out to his work, and ths bride returned to her customer, ss if "nothing In particular" had happened. WOTsCBB AS T0TXB8. From the . New York American. It is -developed that the frsuds which gsve Representative Shafroth of Colo rado the sest he has so honorably re signed, were largely perpetrated by wo men, who have the suffrage in that state. This revelation will be discouraging to those who contend thst the enfranchise ment of women throughout the union would necessarily purify our politics. The contention rests on the assumption that women ars in all ways tha moral superior of man, . It is a fact, deplorable but undeniable, that there are bad women as well as good women, and that the bad ones, when they are admitted to political ac tivity, carry their badness with them. They have shown what they are capa ble of In the way of crookedness in Colorado, and it is not to be forgotten that the female vote of Utah was over whelmingly Mormon, though polygamy is tha last thing one would expect wo men to support at the polls. Should woman suffrage become gen eral peculiar effects might at first bo looked for. A disposition to morally up lift society by interfering with mascu line freedom through legislation against men's social amusements and convivial habits would be manifested, but political division on sex lines would be short llyed. Intelligent and good women would soon come to act with intelligent and good men In public affairs, and the other kind of women would as naturally come to act with the other kind of men. Female suffrage would multiply the electorate by two, but It is doubtful if in the long run it would profoundly In-! fluence legislation in Its larger aspects, however great Its surface effect upon our political manners might b. There Is, of course, unholy Joy among ths cynical over the Colorado frauds; But it needs to be kept In mind by the exultant males who point their finger, of scorn at the tlcket-tlnkerlng, repestlng and ballot-box stuffing females of Den ver thst the latter Invented none of thesti tricks. TheyJearnoi them, from th. men. . . . LOSES $405,000 GAMBLING From the New York American. " . Men of experience at . the' gaming table say such a sum could not be lost In the rglven time If the play was honest. Ther are scores of men wha could lose, such, a sum and stand the loss without whimpering; snd there were up to a short time ago one or two places in Nejv York where no limit was placed on the game. But the name of the luckless player Is locked tip In the breasts of a'few men. The loser knows, so does the winner and likewise District Attorney Jerome, who vouches for the statement that $405,000 were lost in five night's play at faro, in a gambling house In New York not very long ago. and In the sam breath refuses to- disclose the name of the player. ' . ' : "It was a drunken kid," says Mr: Jerome.;: - And he adds., confirming the opinion of those . who are experienced in the game, that the play wss dishonest. ' It was at a hearing on this bill to force witnesses to testify against gambling houses before a legislative committee at Albany that the district attorney made these revelations. He dropped them casually during the course of his argument, and evinced surprise at tne sensation which ms remarks cre ated.' r :. w'l don't think I had better say any thing more about the affair at . this time," lis added, when pressed for de tails. "The young man was a victim of a 'brace game; ne lost the money in Ave sittings, or at the rate of $81,000. per night; and he never had a chance to win. He paid the losses like a man, and his friends cams and took him away." When asked if the loser was able to stand his losses without embarrassment, Mr. Jerome said, "Oh, yes." And pressed for the location of the house where the plsy occurred, be replied: "It wss one of the famous gambling hells of New York. Everybody knows its location, or almost everybody." There are few such losses recorded in the history of the gambling table.; There are tales . of ancient knights who haxarded a principality on the cast of a die, and the fables of the table tell of vast sums won and lost on ths turn of a card. , But theynrs mostly fables. The young Prince de Bragance Is said to have lost $800,000 In a single night's play at the Vienna Jockey club. But nobody ever saw the money. There are no such high plays at Monte Carlo. John W. Gates was reported once to have been fleeced out of $110,000 in a Saratoga gambling place, but whether the boisterous laughter that followed an Inquiry as to the facts reflected the millionaire' derlslon-at-the - idea of any one fleecing him, or merriment over the loss of so trifling a sum, has never been learned. Still, though general losses may ba Infrequent, there is no city In the world where so many men of millions wel come a chance to tempt fate with" th cards as in New York. And It is readily conceded that the. gams told of by Mr. Jerome may havs taken place that in all probability It did take place, and in Canneld's at No. i East Forty-fourth street. Just beyond Delmonlco's. Before ths pursuit of ths gambler became so hot in New ,York' that ths business became unprofitable Canneld's was ths only gambling place in New York that was frequented by ths class of men from among whom the victim of Mr. Jerome's story must have been selected. Canfleld boasted of his select friends. Ths ability to sign a check in seven figures became almost a pre-requlslte to VUTDES COWfl WXLZh Sow Aa Bombl Boy Kay Begin a uoosssfnl Oars. From th St. Paul News. An inspiring lesson is to be drawn from the life of the late Htppolyte Marlnonl, one of the best known men ot France and who was regarded as one of th founders of the modern French press. He has died leaving a fortune estimated at $20,000,000. But he has also left an examyle that Is of mors worth to the world than can.be . esti mated In money. His accumulation of wealth was only an Incident to his real success. He tvigan Ufa with barely $15, his share In the lean inheritance of his father, a poor gendarme. Before enter ing a printing office to work bard at an old-fashioned press the boy had been minding cattle in the fields around his father's house. In memory of these far-off days he had a splendid picture In on of his salons pf a pastursgs with cattle grastng, by Tryon. Of this 'pic ture h wss extremely proud. He used to show It to his friends, remarking: "Tryon has painted those -cows with rare genius, but not mors faithfully than I used to look after them." With all his mighty achievements, with all his money, with all the satis faction that comes with consciousness that honor and reward have been well earned, th old man still found his great est pride In th fact that when It had been his humble lot to mind cows he had done it well. . Looking sfter-cows is a small thing In th common eyes of the world ss com pared with his later work, but he was wis enough alwsys to know that it wss the most important thing he ever did. For as he minded the cows he molded his character and mads himself master of fate. It wss a little thing, but he did It the . beat he could, and in doing his best be brought forces into play that gav his mind the upward turn which brings It Into touch with the divinity and makes It an element of resistless power. The boy who has learned to do his best Is more than half way along the road to success. It is in ' doing his best that ha feels the mental, th moral and ths physical forces unfolding within him and sees opportunity beckoning' with smiling promise. Doing one's best gives a sens of completeness, of - efficiency, of being master of one's .work, not slave to It, and of being equal to any emer gency. Before such ' a spirit obstacles turn Into stepping stones to higher things; .or. become mere shadows that flee away before resolute epproach. Consciousness of,. possessing ability to do with superiority whatever one under takes glyes sou) satisfaction, inspiration and power which no half-hearted, slip shod worker ever knows. . . We are apt loosely to. think that M. Marlnonl became a successful and a great man only aa hs achieved worldly great things. But not so. H became successful snd great when he did his best in minding the cows. He there and then caught the consciousness that la the key to the rlddls of life, ' : TBS COSSACKS. ' From the St.. Paul Pioneer Press. ' The Cossacks . have been under Rus sian tutelSge for over ISO years. They have, In fact, been tha petted children of tha empire; receiving. In return for the military services in which ; they naturally delight,-a great many privi leges,: including exemption from all taxes., One might . ressonably look among 'them, then, for Illustrations' C the highest snd best character to ' be developed under Russian auspices' But', admittance. within the handsome bronze portals. ' ( ' It was at Canneld's that a certain well known young millionaire was said to: have dropped $90,000 one night after dining agreeably at Sherry's. There was a group of about 20young million aires who frequented the place. All of them were-well known in business and sooial circles. ( Almost all of them could stand a heavy loss, A because each had the backing of ' lnterestsjrepresentlng many times 1405,000. They used Canfield's as a club, It wss a charming resort. The rooms abounded in works of art. they were sumptuously furnished, a high, priced chef was con stantly In attendance and the Wines were the best obtainable. Anyone of this group of young men might have wandered in; as described by Mr. Jerome, eager for a wrestle with fate, and it is entirely probable that, as Mr. Jerome ssserts, the young man. sat in the common room until he began to win heavily, when the polite manager suggested that if he wanted to have a real good time and play with the limit thrown out of the window, there was a email private room at his disposal and, In order to show that there was no de ception, the house would be delighted to. send out and get a dealer who was not interested in the house.: ' . : .'Mr. .Jerome says this is what hap pened. It usually does. And it is the outside dealer who - is ', called n for absolutely fair play who perpetrates the robbery for the institution. . . How? In what manner can a profes: slonal gambler deliberately rob- a man of $81,000 a night for Ave nights with out the victim discovering that he is being duped? . One of these same professional gamblers has described for the Ameri can Just how the thing is worked, and the explanation is hqije given in his own words. Said he: "The theory of faro is this: A full deck Is shuffled. There are 62 cards in the deck and .they are placed In a little German silver box. - They are face up in the box, and, of course, the top card is exposed. One side of the box is open. In the top of ths other side is a silt Just wide enough to permit one card to be slipped through. In playing, the top card Is slipped off and laid-about 10 inches from the box. This shows, say, a king, and that is taken off and laid upon the top card. This leaves, we will say, a seven exposed, and the 'seven wins. The king, the first card to show, loses. "By coppering the king that Is, plac ing a small black checker on your bet on the king you wln, as you then bet that ths card will lose. If you copper the seven you lose. Two cards of the same denomination showing together is a -spilt,-and the house takes half of all the bets . ..'.'., ' 'That 'is the game. Now for the crooked methods of playing it. In the first place, strippers are used cards cut so thst they are of uneven widths, top and bottom. After shuffling such a deck and stripping them," a" dealer knows pretty well how they will run. Besides this, they are marked upon the edges by a slight groove, so that he can al ways tell by running his finger over the card as it lies in the box Just whst 1t is. "This can be done only by th highest grade of experts in 'brace box work, and those folks get good money. That, however. Is only the preliminary step. The dealer must make the cards come out of tho box the way he wants, or th house loses. The 'brace' boxes are so arranged that by pressing a spring in the sids of the box the silt widens Just the width of ons card and two cards are slipped out together. They are laid down os one card." in fact Russia hss cared to develop and strengthen only those traits which pre serve and Increase their efficiency as killers of men and not merely of men, but of women and children as well Aside from the management of their horses and weapons, which is. so su perb as to have won for them the name of "the best cavalry ltrth world," they ar densely ignorant', as well as super stltlous and brutal. They will press pike or sword to the bosom of woman or child with no more compunctions than to that of an armed opponent. Russia takes care never to Interfere with their brutal proclivities. Their employ ment by her. even today. Is open to th same objections which have been raised In times past to ths employment of In dians sgalnst whites in America, and of savage blacks against whites In Africa They ar tha most dsngerous foes th Japanese have to fsce. - The latter cut a poor figure in ths matter of cavalry; the horse having been little known in Japan until -very recently, and the people being unacquainted either with his breeding or management Eyl dently the Jspanese generals must de pend on their Infantry and artillery in fighting th Cossacks, and, more, on such destruction of Russia's railway communications ss shall make it im possible, In winter, to feed th Cos sacks' horses. two szantcEBS. Ella Wheeler Wilcox in New York Amer ican. ' I. There was a msn, it wss ssid ons time. Who went astray in his youthful prime. Csn ths brain keep cool and th heart keep quiet When the blood Is a river that's run ning riot? And the boys will be boys the old folks - say, ' And the man is the better who's had hla day. " , , The sinner reformed;-and thepreachef told I Of th prodigal son who cam back to the fold. And the Christian people threw open the door, - . , , . : With a warmer welcome than ever be Jtore, Wealth and honor were his to com mand, , - And a spotless woman gav hire her hand. , The world strewed their pathway with blossoms abloom, ' - Crying, "God bless lad ye, and God bless groom!" . . v II. " ' There was a maiden who went astray In th golden dawn of her life's young , .day. 1 She had more passion and heart than .head, ., .-: -And she followed blindly where fond Love led. And Love unchecked Is a dsngerous guide r To wander at wIU by a fair girl's side. The woman repented and turned from sin, . But no dodr opened to let her in. : ' The preacher prayed that, she might be forgiven, -v- -But told her to . look for mercy in Heaven. " ' For this is the law of th earth, we know: That the woman Is stoned while the man msy goi ,r; , , A brsvS man wedded her after alt, But the world said, frowning, "W shall sot call." , Small Change March may come In like a lion, but not a lion to be mucti afraid of. ' -v. : Nightcaps ar coming "into fashion again among London women.- Also ey- openers. . A ' combine to doubl the pries of qutnine is, nearly as mean as one to double . tha price of coal In large east em cities. Spokane preachers .who united - in a reform crusade are fiercely', wrangling among themselves. What a shrewd old fellow the devil is. . . , . A news item-reports that Colombia Is ready to fight.! But she won't b ready very long after beginning to fight Uncle Sam, if that is what she means. - Oregon wants no land-grabbers, or their agents, attorneys or - tools, on . guard in official places, particularly in congress ' and In ' local land offices. . y After all, Mr. President and Mr. Sec retary, the consensus of opinion among the people is thst Uncle Sam should t tend strictly to his own big ranch. : "Our politics Is more important than Our religion," declared Mr. C. E. . S. ' Wood the other evening. .Mr. Wood is never afraid to say. what he thinks. , Isn't the phrase, "some time." as des ignator of a period the limits of which ar somewhat essential to th under standing of a. "story." being '''over worked? ," '" .., .' ' .'.;' It can't b that the house exposition cpmmittee incline to treat the Lewis and Clark fair shabbily in consequence rather than In spit of our special rep resentatives' efforts. Th Republican national convention will be a tame affair unless a contest over the nomination of vice-president., develops, "which Is unlikely. It is the Democratic Convention that will furnish the fun. A great many people are being con verted in Oregon this winter. But th busy spring cometh,. and then the cal orific summer, and then th fruitful au tumn, before anothef winter. There will be at least one interesting phase of the campaign this spring, snd that is the proposed local option law. On one side there will be much orstory; on the other much "dough"--perhaps. The Missouri supreme court seems to have desired to leave 'some ot the St. Louis boodlsrs frea for exhibition at the fair. The managers might also secure Doc Ames, ex-Captsln Oberlin M. Car ter, and others of Ilk ilk.' Plenty of them sre "out" and presumably "out for more stuff." Representative .JSurton. chairman of the committee on rivers and harbors, not only opposed the proposed increase in the navy, but he Is "bucking" sgalnst Columbia river Improvements. He may be ' disgruntled, and possessed of sn, "an'tl" spirit, because the Republicans of Ohio choss'foxy Dick instead of hint for United States senator. According 'to the Astortan, ' a promi nent hold-over state senator Is strongly opposed to ths operation of slot ma chines, and next winter will Introduce and urge th passage of a bill making the slot-machine business " risky ' and unprofitable, if not impossible, it will be patterned after th Washington state law, providing a sever penalty for those who vlolat Its provisions. "This sena tor thinks ths slot machines' havs be-' com so numerous and varied In de sign as to constitute a nuisance andean evil, and he believes the people will sup port a law putting them out of busi ness. Perhaps, but the Proebstel lsw appears to be practically a dead letter. POLITICAL POINTERS Albany Democrat:' Jefferson Meyer's of Portland is being mentioned for congress in this district on the Democratic ticket, and for the purpose his residence Is given at Salem. Jeff. Is all right, but that doesn't go down. Portland Is his home. Let the Democrats of the other district run him. Salem Statesman: Jeff. Myers, made the race for congress in 18M, and if he had withdrawn, as urged to do, the elec tion would easily have gone to the Popu list candidate, Vanderburg, and Tongue would probably never have gone to con gress. This would hav been an affliction to the state but would no doubt hav pro longed Mr. Tongue' Ufa by many years. Oregon City Courier; , The Socialists of Clackamas county are warming up to their work. On Thursday evening one of their big men, -Brown of Pennsylvania, delivered a speech at the courthouse of considerable ability, Quits a large crowd of Socialists were out to' hear the dis tinguished speaker. He handled his sub ject with eonsldersbleabiyty and aroused among his followers quits a little en thusiasm. Th Socialists of Clackamas county ar figuring on nominating a full county ticket and they expect .to poll a vot of from 600 to 800 in the county. . The Dalles Times-Mountaineer: The Chronicle, evidently realising ths in ability of Oregon's' representative from the second district, appsrently taking It for' granted that Mr. Williamson would fair in his efforts to keep the appropria tion for the Lewis, and Clark Fair up to. $1,750,000, begaq immediately making ex cuses, and laid th blame upon the two Oregon senators and the Oregon legisla ture. We agree with the Chronicle that Senators Mitchell and Fulton are some what to blame In that they were instru mental in forcing the present representa tives in the lower house upon th state or Oregon. Had It not been for their In fluence Oregon would very likely today b represented in the lower house by men would could' pass' the bill through that body in the same form as it come from the senate. Possibly they may be able to do so yet, so why begin making excuses for Mr; Williamson's failure before he has failed? Why groan before you are hurt? Is Mr. Williamson so absolutely Incompetent that excuses for. his failure must be made before he has really failed? Befleotlons of a Bsobslor, . From th New York Press It's a long leg that gets no pulling. . A woman likes to be suspicious mo she can feel so confident afterward, ' It's no fun for a woman to go slelgh riding unless she meets her friends who aren't. , ?:.' ;. ' - ;t ' The most fascinating things about a woman's loglo are all tha little curley- . ques in it. '.1 ' , Something a woman can never under stand is bow a man can consider a cer tified check as exciting as money: A woman's Idea is that her husband ought to pay ths debts she runs him Into even if he has to borrow the money to v do it. ,. -I-.:. . . ,.'.,,,- - - Tslklng buck to your wife is Just ss sensible ss to keep winding" tha alarm clock .while it is going oft V